Juilet Wanjiku Kamau, RLC Bonn PhD alumnus, has published the article “Soil fertility and biodiversity on organic and conventional smallholder farms in Kenya” in the journal Applied Soil Ecology. In the article, among other contributors, she raises the question of how far organic agriculture can improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Therefore, her study evaluates and compares soil fertility, decomposition and biodiversity between conventional and organic farms in Kenya, concluding that organic agriculture does have indeed the potential to increase anthropod diversity, but other factors affect its ability to sustain the health of soils.